JHPOWER

My New Bumper Seems Flex At Bottom In Center But Do Not See Any Brackets To Hold Still .am I Missing So Parts .and Does Some One Have Diagram Or Photo 74

ROBRICCI

its obviously a fiberglass replacement?....and if so...how is it flexing?

here is a pic of mine - pre clear - once it is attached it is fairly rigid and hardly moves at all - even in the center at the split.....

Jud Chapin

http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...=Bumper005.jpg

http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...=Bumper002.jpg

This is what supports you should have under the bumper cover.

glassman74

JH,
The only thing that holds the bumber on are the 18 10-32 bolts
around the lip that bolts to the body that I know of.

glassman74

cegraves1

My fiberglass cover on my 74 flexed in the bottom crnter. There are two angle braces that attach to the bottom of the license plate area and angle up and forward to a frame cross member. Its different than the illustration of the 75 posted by Jud Chapin.

Jud Chapin

This is actually for a '75. I don't know if the '74 is the same layout. Check you AIM.

desi

You can buy some flat steel or alum strips (1" wide) and drill some holes (slots prefered) and bend into proper angle. That's what I did after my fiber ones broke.

Steve439

You need these:

http://www.volvette.com/Merchant2/me...Category_Code=

Don't drive without them. I trashed the bumper on my '74 because
they were missing and I didn't know about them.

stpman

The 74 isn't the same as the 75 there are angle braces for the 74

Jud Chapin

Thanks for the info!

Paul L

These two bumper braces are unique to the 1974.

http://www.ecklers.com/product.asp?p...4&dept_id=1497

outlawkinser

paul67 is correct, the 74 has it's own set of braces.



I kept mine when I had the new Fiberglass bumper installed.

Paul L

I am very quickly learning that the 1968 is not alone in having unique parts. The 1974 is not far behind, e.g. tail lights.

Paul Borowski

...actually, because of the way the '74 taillights are mounted independently of the rear bumper itself, the '74 rear bumper replacement is much easier to do than the '75 to '82 cars are.